After two days of idea-sharing and touring, GCDN director Adrian Ellis and the City of Boston's Arts and Culture director Julie Burros agreed to speak to The Montreal Gazette about their impressions of Montreal's Quartier des spectacles.

"People always ask me how long it takes me to walk to Hudson," he says, "but I tell them I wouldn't know because I've never done it. In 11 years, I've always gotten a lift. That's how nice people are."